Eyvind Johnson
Sweden
29 Jul 1900 // 25 Aug 1976
Writer / Poet [Nobel Prize 1974]
29 Jul 1900 // 25 Aug 1976
Writer / Poet [Nobel Prize 1974]
In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays